Re: spacewalk and postgres

On 07/19/11 7:58 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> I'm keeping an eye on it internally to Red Hat, but not really
> contributing any significant number of cycles ATM. My understanding of
> the status is that the core stuff works but there are still a lot of
> Oracle dependencies in lesser-used nooks and crannies of the software.
> They could really use help from people in finding, and even more
> importantly patching, those Oracle-isms. Satellite/Spacewalk is a
> remarkably large code base, so it's going to be awhile before the last
> such bug is gone. If you want some kind of promise that you won't hit
> any gotchas, you shouldn't use it ... but if you're willing to help fix
> whatever you hit, I believe it's usable.
>

great, thats what I wanted to hear. while work is an oracle shop, I
personally hate dealing with oracle and I know we're trying to get away
from it as much as possible, and I'm definately much happier working
with postgres. I've sort out a few mysql->pg issues in a couple php
projects (drupal, mybb) in the past and submitted bug reports with
proposed fixes...

> You might want to scan the list archives at
> http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list
> http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-devel
>
> if you'd like a deeper dive into what's happening. The latter list
> is where to send any fixes you come up with.

I'll remember that. first, I think I'll install it and figure out how
it all plays, as of right now, I've only spent about 45 minutes browsing
the wiki and such and haven't even had the time to attempt a trial
install. I'm getting a couple new servers in my lab at work in a
couple weeks, and hope to be able to start using a deployment tool
instead of hand installing everything.

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